Inspirations.  

Reactive Space

Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...

Omnidirectional microphone

Design for an omnidirectional microphone, recording sound from all spatial directions. Recorded soun...

Speaker

A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2018

Paris

Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi

Rudolf Belling

Rudolf Belling was sculptor, designer, architect and stage designer. In 1908, he founded a studio fo...

Streampal

Streampal is a lifestream robot for Youtubers, Instagrammers and others who want to record passages ...

The e-scooter Boom

The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...

Jonathan Ive leaves Apple

On June 28, Apple´s chief designer Jonathan Ive (born 1967) announced that he would leave Apple lat...

Street Life

Photographic impressions in the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto. (C) Mario Gagliardi

Abstract Form

Click 4 times on the canvas and watch how an abstract form is generated: https://www.mariogagliardi....

Essential Water

In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...

The Venice Pavillon

The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...

Generative Botany

An early app for generative graphics, realized in 2000 in the (now deprecated) Adobe Flash. To use t...

Cognition

This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...

DC Tower

Photography and image manipulation of the DC Tower by Dominique Perrault in Vienna as part of a proj...

Creative Changemakers & Future City

Promotional sites for the initiative Creative Changemakers and the event Future City. (C) 2018 MGD M...

The Persona Project

Social media are powerful because humans use the same parts of the brain to interact with machines a...

Blacker Box

Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017

Stories of the Future

A random generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated.

Oilspill, Carpet, Camouflage

Pattern generators for interesting surface patterns and backgrounds. Click "Start" to start, "Change...

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

VAW

In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week. We suggested a fundamental...

Typography

Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.

Digital Biology

Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...

Podchain

Podchain is an integrated design concept for on-demand autonomous transport. To optimize kinetic ene...

Fashion, Food, Transport

FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...

WRECK--Regeneration Experiment of Wasted Daily-use Ceramics from Chaozhou, China

WRECK, the destruction of decorum, the ruin of culture. BENTU went deep into daily-use ceramics indu...

Time

How do you express time without numbers or watch hands? Clocks abstract time into a measurable, un...

Low cost urban transport

Combining contemporary technology with a focus on low cost and reliability, this neighborhood transp...

AI assistant

With the advance of digitalisation, items which once had a central position in households have disap...

Hybrid urban scooter

A low-cost hybrid urban scooter for developing countries running either on electric battery or on bi...

Omnidirectional Speaker

Sculptural ominidirectional speakers, projecting sound recorded from an omnidirectional microphone i...

An organic structure for bikes

A sports bike for urban and mountain environments. The aluminium frame provides for increased stabil...

Stories of You

REVOIR is an interactive mirror, activated by emotion detection to create stories through visual lan...

Cooking with myth

IOTAO is a series of IoT - enabled domestic cooking devices for the Chinese market which reinterpret...

Emotional drones

タマ tama : ball, sphere; also jewel, spirit, soul タマタマ tamatama : by chance Balloon drone...

S tables

modul for table

One Hundred Thousand Games

One Hundred Thousand Games is an online game with unlimited levels. It takes the genre of first-per...

Jerszy Seymour Amateurtopia

Berlin born and –based designer Jerszy Seymour studied engineering at South Bank Polytechnic 1987 ...

Unfolding sound spaces

Conventional audio speakers require the listener to sit in a certain spot to get the best audio expe...

Shape-shifting robotic structures

Simulations for a research on shape-shifting robotic structures. Shape memory alloy sticks are linke...

Emotibots

Emotibots are shape-shifting social home robots interacting with humans. Robots will in the future i...

Black Box. A Cabinet of Robotic Curiosities

The Vitra Campus has a new exhibition space: in one of the houses at the southern entrance, a Black ...

Painted by Time

Inricate patterns created by lichens, made over time around the tiny cracks of ceramic tiles. (C) Ma...

Cellular Automata: A design language for industrial silk

Handmade Mudmee silk is part of the cultural heritage of Thailand and Laos with a tradition reaching...

Breathe

The determined breaths of a glassblower are seldom included in the finished product of their labour,...

City Garden II ´Spaces´

Family garden for 5: spacy rooms

Charles Tassin

Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...

penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

Cutting the edges

Arctic Paper launches new swatch books for the brands Arctic, Amber and G-Print, as well as the two ...

Mugs

Intentionally on the very edge of usability, this project takes ubiquitous objects - in this case co...

Functional Pasta

Pasta based on the geometry of a Möbius strip, a geometric surface with the distinction of having o...

We Ar

University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show

An evolutionary algorithm for bike design

A learning algorithm randomly creates simplified body designs for bikes. As they race along the test...

Coffee maker

Visualization of the process of coffee making. The aim was not to use words.

Mapping Reality

During a walk through Berlin Moabit I sketched my perception of the surrounding streets. The result ...

TYPOGRAPHY

RESEARCH

Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!

GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...

Vico Magistretti

Vico Magistretti (1920 - 2006) studied in Lausanne and Milano. He was one of the main protagonists o...

Brand

Brand and product development project for a series of Korean premium specialty food products. (C) Ma...

Glowscape

Study for a LED light installation. LED diodes are installed on a net of wires and placed over the l...

Intuitive Feedback for Human-Machine Interfaces

Tangible human-machine interfaces such as remote controls are based on a linear logic with designate...

Structured Reflection

These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...

Intelligent Personal Assistants

If artificial intelligence would be personalized, what face could these personal assistants have? Th...

Mapping movement to music

This concept for a portable digital sound control device predicted a wrap-around display and intuiti...

Gaetano Pesce: Abstraction is boring

"Abstraction is boring and limited as a mode of expression. Reducing and reducing designs means that...

Chromatic seating

3 colorful seats by 3 Italian designers: Giancarlo Zema graduated from the Faculty of Architecture o...

Jeff Zimmerman

Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...

Home Patterns

“Home Patterns” is a new series of patterns by Longstory, designed for printing on textiles, wal...

Organic Public

Contemporary cities are in need of public spaces which work better for their citizens. This proposal...